Jefferies
JOHN RICHARD, gen- English writer on rural subjects; born life as a journalist on the staff of the won his first real success with "The Gamekeeper at Home"; describing rural life and the observations of a nature lov- Other books written in the same er. vein, or on similar subjects, are "Wild Life in a Southern County" (1879); "The Amateur Poacher" (1880); "Round about a Great Estate" (1881); "Nature near London" (1883); "Life of the Fields" (1884); "Red Deer" (1884); and "The Open Air" (1885). The book entitled "The Story of My Heart" (1883) is a strange autobiography of inner life.
Jefferies possessed a wonderful insight into the habits and ways of animals and birds and creeping things, and a great love for nature. He died in Goring in Sussex, Aug. 14, 1887.